Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the… Read More »Tens of thousands evacuated in Russia, Kazakhstan amid worst floods in decades
Togo has rescheduled legislative elections for April 29 after delaying the ballot over a highly contested constitutional reform, a government statement said on Tuesday.
The mother and father of a Michigan teen who shot and killed four classmates were each sentenced to between 10 and 15 years in prison… Read More »Parents of Michigan school shooter sentenced to prison
Real Madrid and Champions League holders Manchester City shared a pulsating 3-3 draw in a rollercoaster quarter-final first leg on Tuesday.
The top court in Arizona on Tuesday ruled a 160-year-old near total ban on abortion is enforceable, thrusting the issue to the top of the… Read More »Arizona can enforce an 1864 law criminalizing almost all abortions, says court ruling
British physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of a mass-giving particle – the so-called Higgs boson – jointly earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics, has died aged… Read More »Nobel-winning ‘God particle’ physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94
Lawmaker Simon Harris was elected Ireland’s prime minister by a vote in parliament Tuesday, becoming at 37 the country’s youngest-ever leader.
A South African court on Tuesday allowed former president Jacob Zuma to run in May’s general elections, overturning a decision by electoral authorities barring him… Read More »South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma wins court bid to run in general election
Kenya’s hopes of reaching the World Cup will be over prematurely unless the country stops “shooting itself in the foot”.
The victims were attempting to flee a cholera outbreak on Mozambique’s northern coast.
